00:08Sweden has been one of the most important countries
00:11in the development of modern women's football.
00:17The national team has placed in the top four
00:19as an incredible 17 major tournaments.
00:23But for all their consistency,
00:24they only have one major trophy to show for it.
00:27The inaugural UEFA Women's Euro back in 1984.
00:35Clubs from the Damalswensken have appeared
00:37in seven UEFA Champions League finals,
00:40behind only European powerhouses Germany and France,
00:44while Umea's two Champions League titles
00:47and three runners-up finishes
00:49ranks the tiny side among the continent's elite.
00:57Pia Sundhager has been one of the most influential coaches
01:01in the women's game,
01:02leading the USA to two Olympic gold medals,
01:06Sweden to Olympic silver,
01:08and Brazil to a Copa America Femenina.
01:14And star players have come easily,
01:16including modern greats like Fridolina Rolfa,
01:20Amanda Illichstedt,
01:21and Magdalena Eriksson.
01:27Eriksson was a member of the Sweden squad
01:29that reached back-to-back major tournament semifinals,
01:33falling to the eventual champions
01:34of both the 2023 World Cup and Euro 2022.
01:43They were only narrowly beaten by Spain in 2023,
01:47but a year earlier,
01:48they were ruthlessly hammered 4-0 by England.
01:53Yeah, I feel really disappointed at the moment.
01:56This is a tough one to take for us.
01:59We, of course, wanted more in this tournament,
02:01but it didn't go our way today.
02:04England are brutally effective as a team,
02:06and, yeah, we just wasn't enough today.
02:09What I think we can take from this, though,
02:11is that we have had amazing fans.
02:14I had a bunch of messages coming into the dressing room
02:17from people who truly support us,
02:21in thick and in thin, you know,
02:23not the haters that, you know,
02:26just saw this game and got disappointed.
02:28No, we have true fans
02:30who will lift Sweden for the future tournaments
02:33and future games.
02:37With such pedigree,
02:39Sweden's women will surely double their tally
02:41of major titles eventually.
02:46We know how good we are.
02:47We have been performing the last tournaments.
02:49We can see it in the World Cup and the Olympics,
02:53where we have,
02:54in the end, we had a medal.
02:56So we have to be proud
02:58and we have to work really hard
03:00for reaching the top.
03:03And when Sweden do reach the top,
03:05it will be a fitting reward
03:07for a well-rounded football nation.
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